Digital Inequality Quotes

Infrastructure investment is critical to closing the digital divide in our country and bringing high-speed Internet access to more rural Americans.

The Internet is now the catalyst in our society for growing our economy, engaging in the democratic process, and connecting with one another. It is an information equalizer, and everyone from farmworkers to financiers deserves fair access to it.

You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

The Internet belongs to all of us, not big telecom.

Political divisions may be fierce, but there is at least one issue that most Americans agree on: net neutrality.

We must close the digital divide.

The Internet was invented in America but has found its largest number of users in China.

I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.

Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.

The FCC has been hard at work doing what we can to help close the digital divide.

If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects of upward mobility for low-income New Yorkers and further exacerbate income inequality.

In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world's lowest.

Even if a media of a TV is not available in a home, there's this concept of community homes, where a reasonably well-off villager will have a TV - and a nice TV - and he'll keep it outside the house in the evenings.

We know that almost all Americans are avid consumers of technology, but many lack the opportunity to do the creative work that fuels our digital economy.

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time, the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in.

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

Access to reliable Internet is a necessity, whether it's for school, work, or staying connected with family and friends.

I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

All Americans must have access to the Internet in today's digital world, and the market needs competition to drive affordable prices.

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

You either use the Internet or you are backward.

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.